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- Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot performed U.S. Spacewalk 97 on Aug 18 2026, making Adenot the first French woman to walk in space.
- The six-and-a-half-hour EVA replaced a failed space-to-ground antenna on the ISS Z1 truss.
- Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir operated Canadarm2 from inside the ISS to position the spacewalkers.
- Menon's EVA, his second in less than two weeks, followed a six-hour, 27-minute sortie on Aug 6 2026.
